Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has proposed a raft of changes to planned work because of a gap in resources.
Plans cover the agency’s priorities for 2023 to 2024 financial year and beyond. Areas have been identified for efforts to be stopped, paused, continued with an exit strategy, or scaled back.
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The Food and Drug Administration is requesting an 8 percent increase of $477 million for the next fiscal year with some of the money earmarked for food safety programs.
Including the increase, the agency has asked for $6.5 billion for the fiscal year 2022, which begins Oct. 1 this year.
Continue Reading FDA announces budget request for federal fiscal year 2022
Many questions directed at outgoing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg during a Senate budget hearing on Thursday concerned funding for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and details of the law’s rules. The agency’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2016 asks for a total of $1.5 billion
Continue Reading Hamburg Tells Senate Budget Committee FSMA Funding Needed to Fill ‘Significant’ Gaps
The increased funding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested for implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in fiscal year 2016 was one of the key topics of discussion Wednesday during a House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing. 
Continue Reading Budget Subcommittee Zeroes in on FDA’s Request for More FSMA Funding
Food-safety advocates were pleased to see increased funding for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) in the $1.1-trillion spending bill President Barack Obama signed on Tuesday. The bill provides almost $2.6 billion in discretionary funding for the Food and
Continue Reading Food-Safety Advocates Applaud Increased FSMA, NARMS Funding
Victims of foodborne illness and their families are urging Congress to appropriate additional funding for implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Several Congress members and plenty of food safety advocates have written to the leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees this year asking that they increase
Continue Reading Foodborne Illness Victims Request Additional FSMA Funding
On Wednesday, the first day of the new federal fiscal year, 16 public health organizations wrote to the heads of the House and Senate Appropriations committees urging Congress to add $50 million to the Food and Drug Administration’s budget so the agency can fully implement the Food Safety Modernization Act
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(Editor’s note: The following is in response to “Experts Debate Whether Food Safety Funding is Adequate,” published April 24, 2014, on Food Safety News.) Two questions regarding the adequacy of food safety funding for the Food and Drug Administration were asked at last week’s National Food Policy
Continue Reading Why FDA Needs FSMA Resources Now
At the National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., this week, a panel of experts discussed the impact of funding deficits on food programs. Martin Delgado, staff director of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for six years, spoke about how sequestration – the automatic across-the-board budget cuts in effect for most
Continue Reading Experts Debate Whether Food Safety Funding is Adequate
Members of the Safe Food Coalition and the Worker Health and Safety Coalition wrote to members of Congress this week, asking them not to reduce the budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service and to remove language from the funding bill that urges the agency to
Continue Reading HIMP Debate Sneaks Into FY 2014 Budget Negotiations for USDA, FDA
